Promoting biodiversity through sustainable development

Biodiversity

What a great experience to go back in the field after few years in Angola. As you know we moved to Indonesia. Such a great country, where you have some many things to do, so many natural ingredients to work…

Few of us are working hard to promote, explain, implement business mindset ensuring that Biodiversity is now mainstreamed. We are happy and proud to see that it is becoming a real topic among the international community and business sector. The…

Following my previous article and to go beyond the usual list of leaders* that you could read in various publications and that we already heard of, other companies have taken important and interesting steps to meet their sustainable commitments and…

As soon as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been created and the Nagoya Protocol was under discussion, parallel discussions were and still are ongoing on how patent policies can reflect the Objectives of the CBD. The World Intellectual…

As often mentioned in my posts related to ABS, things are moving but rather slowly. However, I wanted to share with you the last CBD Magazine that gives an overview of actions, partnerships taken to support the Nagoya Protocol Implementation.…

Few months ago I found a very interesting publication from IUCN on No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact framework for Biodiversity. The publication is a result of discussion of a working group composed of diverse organizations such as The…

I am in Kuala Lumpur for outreach purposes since almost a week now. Kuala Lumpur is a very new city in the sense that it never stops to grow, expand. For sure the architects I met in a network workshop,…

Even if we know that the implementation of ABS practices are not easy due to various factors such as: National regulation under development, which uncertainties in the current daily processes; Real implementation at the national level: how does the regulation…

How to work together towards sustainability? You will find here some KEY words on how we should/could start. For sure some ideas are common sense but sometimes they are not necessarily used in business practices. Dialogue: We want to work…

These last posts, we mainly discussed the linkages between biodiversity and businesses to get private sectors engage into biodiversity preservation, sustainable use and sharing of its benefits. But here is another WHY, we need to take care of biodiversity. This…